Jan, Here is a copy of what I posted to the list. Part of it was to you. I am posting to the list again. Our server must not like each other. I have had them bouncing back from you. Sydney -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Cardner <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 28, 2000 11:30 AM Subject: [NJUNION] Copy of newsletter about Touchons >We just found an old business card.....Touchon's Floral Gardens, Growers of >Quality Perennial and Alpine Plants, New Market, NJ >Tel. Dunellen 2-6969-W. Now talk about getting nostalgic!!! > >This was my husband's grandfather. He died in 1937, so the card is pretty >old. > >Jan Jacot, >Could we possibly get a copy of the newsletter mentioned below about Leon >Touchon? I will be glad to pay for copies and postage. Bruce says to ask >you if you remember the Lawlers, Gunns, and Hewitts in Warren. He went to >Watchung Boro and North Plainfield High School. (Long time ago! <grin>) > >I have had two emails bounce back from you, so I thought I would post to the >list about the newsletter. > >Sydney > > > > > >{Here's how a Warren Township Historical Society newsletter (Vol. II, No. 1, >Spring 1994 issue) reads, and there also is 1930s pixture of bar and >dancehall with Sunoco Station in front: > >"Leon Touchon, whose ancestors were French-speaking Swiss, opened his >general store and gasoline station on Stirling Road in the early 1930s. The >area, then known as South Stirling (or Sterling) was sparsely populated >except for nearby Plainfield Gardens} > > >